I have been reading through this thread and found it really interesting. You cannot hail a cab where I live (unless you are at a hotel downtown or at the airport); you have to call them. For certain crowded events, I can drive to a train station and go downtown to my event, and that's fine, or I just drive and…

I have been reading through this thread and found it really interesting. You cannot hail a cab where I live (unless you are at a hotel downtown or at the airport); you have to call them. For certain crowded events, I can drive to a train station and go downtown to my event, and that's fine, or I just drive and pay…

A clinic escort was murdered back in the day? Probably a good thing I didn't know that while I was one! You ever want to grow a thick skin? do that gig for awhile.... I moved on to rape crisis advocacy... there's less yelling. Although, singing along to a morose rendition of Ave Maria with the Catholic protestors…

I was on a pub crawl and had the great misfortune to run into my recently ex'ed husband and his new wife. FANtastic. So, we chat. New Wife proceeds to tell me all about their wedding (because that's what I want to hear about?)... at first I was annoyed. Then she tells me about how Beta Husband's tween sister got…

I saw this earlier on another news site, right after reading the story about the Arkansas state rep claiming his un-adopted daughters were possessed by demons, that's why he gave them away to a rapist. I volunteer as a rape crisis advocate. Am I just putting band-aids on a failing dam, because every time I flip open…

No, St. Louis People do not say that all the time. I have never heard it uttered by a single St. Louis resident, ever. They only time I have ever heard it used, at all ever, was by my elderly aunties in rural TN. Of course, maybe people don't say it in front of me because the know it would be ill-received. I'm…

Actually, I have been to New York, and Boston, and our Italian food on The Hill is equal to or better than what I ate there. Imo's Pizza is an acquired taste, I'll grant you. The pork steak, slathered in Maul's BBQ sauce is sublime, and when I sent a gooey butter cake to relations in Florida, they swore it nearly…

Oh, I have so much to say.... crocheters don't have needles; we have hooks. They are often metal and pointy, so there is still some weapon potential there. I keep yarn and a hook in my (very large) purse to keep my hands busy, and it's nice for not making eye contact with people in waiting rooms and airplanes (I…

I wish they would come back to the States and do another episode here... the last one, where they almost got beat up in the South, was hilarious. My daughter even sent them a fan letter (via email), inviting them over to dinner if they ever head through 'round here parts. Perhaps I'll just serve tea....

You have not experienced the best pizza ever????
Google Imo's Pizza for images (and maybe they will ship?), but generally, it's flat and thin, and occasionally square, and covered with a cheese mixture that includes provel, a mysterious cheese that must have been invented here because it's the only place I have ever…

Top Gear may be the only show all members of my family agree on. We DVR all the episodes, my eleven year old daughter named her hamster after Richard Hammond, and now my nine year old daughter wants a Bugatti. On Tuesdays, I make tacos, and we all gather 'round the telly to watch Top Gear together. Tis true. …

Top Gear may be the only show all members of my family agree on. We DVR all the episodes, my eleven year old daughter named her hamster after Richard Hammond, and now my nine year old daughter wants a Bugatti. On Tuesdays, I make tacos, and we all gather 'round the telly to watch Top Gear together. Tis true. …

Top Gear may be the only show all members of my family agree on. We DVR all the episodes, my eleven year old daughter named her hamster after Richard Hammond, and now my nine year old daughter wants a Bugatti. On Tuesdays, I make tacos, and we all gather 'round the telly to watch Top Gear together. Tis true. Have…

I find the native cuisine of my hometown delicious, although St Louis style pizza isn't for everyone. I am sure there is a Cracker Barrel around here somewhere, but I have not been to one in recent recorded history. I do have a bit of a server story, though.
Curly fries. We hate them. It's like an overgrown…

Years ago, my sister was making mashed potatoes for her family, but then realized that she was out of milk. Rather than packing up her young son and infant son and heading to the store, she discovered a bottle of pumped breast milk in the fridge....
Evidently, the potatoes were delicious, although she didn't try them…

When I was in college, my Literature Senior Seminar was "Images of Jesus in Film and Fiction" based on a plan to go see "The Passion of the Christ," except by the time it came out, no theater in my Bible Belt college town would show it! So we watched a video of Monty Python's Life of Brian instead. Yes, I got senior…

I seriously can't wait to see God's Sports Bra...

In the first image, anyway, her armor does resemble that of a Greek hoplite, so it seems reasonable. At least she is not shown missing one breast, as the Ancient Greeks reported that the Amazons removed one breast so that it would not interfere with their archery.

As an adoptee, I knew I had a sibling out there, somewhere, and made a point of never dating anyone who was from the state in which he and I were born. I reached out to him years ago, and while it took some time, we are now close (well, as close as we can be with a nearly 20 hour drive separating us). I feel very…

Don't sweat it at all. We Midwesterners make fun of y'all, too. I remember, back in the day, when May Company moved its headquarters from NYC to St Louis. Poor New Yorkers wandering around in all black outfits in our blasting summer heat, dripping sweat from the humidity, freaking out when the tornado sirens went…